The Reserve Bank of Australia study has found “no compelling rationale” for expanding access to central bank money www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...

“The volatility led to significant volumes in interest rate futures in Europe and the UK, as the market shifted from pricing in cuts to hikes in a matter of days” – Joseph Nehorai, Goldman Sachs www.risk.net/markets/7963...

Comment: Perceived time in interest rate markets follows a logarithmic function of real time – Jean-Philippe Bouchaud www.risk.net/cutting-edge...

Commerzbank had the highest vulnerability to an upward interest rate shock among 33 European banks at the end of 2025 www.risk.net/risk-quantum...

EC looking to achieve “an international level playing field for EU banks more permanently” with new FRTB proposals. www.risk.net/regulation/7...

Latest op risk loss commentary: Drift Protocol & Kelp DAO lose $580m-plus from cyber attacks; JP Morgan fined $60m for not supervising representative pushing high-risk investment – data from ORX News www.risk.net/comment/7963...

Alrajhi Bank saw huge spikes in derivatives inflows and outflows under an LCR stress scenario in Q4 2025 www.risk.net/risk-quantum...

Industry says US proposal to let banks recognise cross‑netting between repo and derivatives exposures is potentially unusable. www.risk.net/regulation/7...

Raiffeisen Bank saw market RWAs under the internal modelled approach rise 19.9% in Q4 2025 www.risk.net/risk-quantum...

“Risk teams can see the margin call coming, but they can’t explain it to management or trace it back to a trade” – Maxime Jeanniard du Dot, senior VP, Trading Technologies www.risk.net/risk-managem...

Comment: Firms could convert prediction markets’ probabilities into risk management actions like hedging adjustments and stress-test updates – Vishal Gupta www.risk.net/comment/7963...

Pssst, Esma… need some supervisory staff? www.risk.net/regulation/7...

A mixed year for systemic indicators for Chinese banks in 2025, with CCB seeing a rise in 13 out of 14 systemic indicators www.risk.net/risk-quantum...

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US banks saw AOCI deteriorate in Q1 www.risk.net/risk-quantum...

The Basel III endgame proposals giveth, the Basel III endgame proposals taketh away. www.risk.net/risk-quantum...

T+1 transmission: EU can learn from what did – and didn’t – work well for North America www.risk.net/risk-managem...

Sponsored content: J.P. Morgan From insight to execution: building the next-generation cross-asset platform www.risk.net/insight/mark...

UK life insurers have pushed leverage in structured gilt trades up to as much as four times to bolster returns in support of pension buyout pricing www.risk.net/markets/7963...

US banks made no progress on EVE transparency in 2025 www.risk.net/risk-quantum...

“You often may not know who is behind certain wallets. Crypto has been misused very actively by sanctioned individuals and terrorist organisations” – Natalia Taft, compliance & regulatory governance adviser www.risk.net/risk-managem...

Comment: AI agent could provide a continuously updated, decision-level view of how a firm embeds risk, rather than replace senior human judgement www.risk.net/comment/7963...

Hedge fund financing reached a record $8.04 trillion at the end of 2025, bringing total growth over the year to an all-time high of 32.5% www.risk.net/risk-quantum...

US regulators’ March 19 re-proposal of the Basel III endgame drew relief from banks but some say the absence of a deadline makes it harder to win funding and staff for large implementation projects www.risk.net/regulation/7...

Our collection of the best stories from April is now available in the app store and online: www.risk.net/risk-magazin...

Investors are piling back into emerging market FX carry trades www.risk.net/markets/7963...

Banks that jettison validation to get ahead in the AI race could find themselves falling behind supervisory expectations www.risk.net/our-take/796...

Complying with EBA’s simplified credit risk calculation could result in catapulting capital costs, say some. www.risk.net/regulation/7...

Target residual interest as a share of customer funds fell to record lows at nine major US FCMs in February www.risk.net/risk-quantum...

Cutting Edge: The authors introduce a two-factor quintic Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model, capturing the volatility surfaces of SPX and VIX while aligning with the skew-stickiness ratio across maturities ranging from a few days to over two years. www.risk.net/cutting-edge...

“Even as AI evolves rapidly, having those controls in place gives us much greater confidence in our ability to manage business-as-usual risks” – Jason Tuo, Barclays www.risk.net/risk-managem...

“Uncertainty around the magnitude of these exposures is relatively large” – John Schindler, FSB secretary-general, on banks’ provision of financing to private credit funds www.risk.net/risk-managem...

The top-five member IM concentration across 24 CCPs rose 69bp to 51.95% in Q4 2025 www.risk.net/risk-quantum...

FX options have been slow to follow the rest of the asset class in its embrace of electronification. JP Morgan – and others – hope to change that www.risk.net/markets/7963...

Structural risks in the market could become “existential”, warns hedge fund CIO www.risk.net/investing/79...

Basel III endgame proposal eases foreign bank concerns about unnecessary op risk capital charges. www.risk.net/regulation/7...

“International consistency underpins cross-border business and the ability of firms to interact on a global basis” – David Bailey, Bank of England. www.risk.net/regulation/7...

SRT transactions reached a record €260 billion in 2024, according to two BIS reports www.risk.net/risk-quantum...

"Prediction markets are one new source that has been pretty effective at identifying some things. They got the elections right every time in the last year… Those are indicators that we can’t ignore” – Matt MacKenzie, Optiver www.risk.net/markets/7963...

Yuval Rooz, CEO of Digital Asset, says tokenised collateral could let firms do 40–60% more repo trading with the same balance sheet – an uplift he called “life-changing” for buy‑side firms that trade intraday www.risk.net/markets/7963...

Banks are pushing for more changes to the Basel III endgame proposals to further reduce the capital hit for trading businesses www.risk.net/regulation/7...

FX options traders are eschewing directional bets after the US‑Iran ceasefire, with many lightening positions www.risk.net/markets/7963...

OCC stablecoin rule could make it impossible to use Genius Act-compliant coins as the cash leg of tokenised repo trades, warns DRW CEO www.risk.net/regulation/7...

CDS notionals reported to US swap data repositories increased 12.9% to $8.1 trillion in the week to March 20 www.risk.net/risk-quantum...

Non-banks need closer supervision, say Banque de France economists. www.risk.net/regulation/7...

The latest People moves news is now live and free to read: www.risk.net/people/79634...

“The total cost of clearing is becoming more complex and less visible at first glance” – Mario Claeys, European Commodity Clearing www.risk.net/risk-managem...

Six US G-Sibs ended 2025 with their smallest buffers for TLAC since at least 2022 www.risk.net/risk-quantum...

Few US funds have used equity options to trade the AI wave like BlackRock’s $17bn Global Allocation Fund – not just by buying stocks but systematically reshaping its exposure using equity options www.risk.net/markets/7963...

CRD VI’s Article 21c threatens fresh barriers to cross-border activity originating outside the EU. What can banks do? www.risk.net/regulation/7...